Spending time on the Internet doesn't make you understand computers. (It does make you understand that you get a hit of happy-brain-juice when you press the Play button.) My wife teaches college courses and laments that her students, fully in the always-online generation, are helpless in Excel, let alone something like a command line.

I grew up without access to computers at all until I was 12. I thought I would break my uncle's computer by moving the mouse.

I've had a career ranging from telecom and supercomputer chips to mobile, desktop, and web dev. I do not think my lack of exposure to the internet at a young age has limited me.

They might not know how to navigate an iPhone or TikTok, but those are not foundational skills.